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The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage: Second Book: Chapter XXXII. Of Four Kinds of Fever Wherewith A Man May Be Tormented

Christian MysticismFlemish MysticismJan van Ruysbroeck

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Those men who are full of noxious humours, that is to say, full of inordinate inclination towards bodily comfort and towards foreign and creaturely consolations, can fall into four kinds of fever. The first kind is called the quotidian fever. It is a multiplicity of the heart; for these men wish to know all things, and to speak of all things, and to criticise and to judge all things, and meanwhile they often fail to observe themselves.

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